Hatchet



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S. ROGERS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

SETH ROGERS, OF BALLSTON SPRINGS, NEVY YORK.

HATCH ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,104, dated January 28, 1890.

Application filed February 16, 1889. Serial No. 300J 209. (No model.)

' To'aZZ whom t may concern:

heretofore attained.

of the intended tool.

My invention therefore consists in a hatchet as an improved article of manufacture, as hereinafter will be fully described, and specially as laid in the claim.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my inyention in the accompanying drawings, Where- 111- Figure 1 is a side view of my improved hatchet withl the handle inserted. Fig.`2 is a side view of the hatchet with the handle removed. Fig. 3 is a central section through the eye of the hatchet, taken on the line a: of Fig. 2. Y

A designates the hatchet, the blank of which consists of a iiat plate of suitable tool-metal formed to suit the size and Weight It has a blade-piece 1,

as shown, sharpened as usual, and the poll 2.

At B is formed the eye, wherein consists` the novel features of my invention.

To construct this part of thehatchet, the metal plate or blank is slit 'through in the direction of the length of the tool, and the strips thus made are bent outward alternately in opposite directions, as seen at 3 4, forming an eye to receive the handle. This eye may be formed by the insertion of a properlyvshaped mandrel after the alternate strips have been struck outward. It will be perceived that the blank is of substantiall'yuniform thickness, and that the eye Vis made Without Welding, so that the hatchet may be made from a at blank slit, as stated, to form the eye, and then the eye completed by any means which will bend the strips alternately in opposite directions.

The handle is held with great firmness in the eye, as the strips thereof have a tendency to grip with a spring function the part inserted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

As an improved article of manufacture, a hatchet formed of a single iiat blank of material A and having an eye B, formed integrally therewith, consisting of strips of the blank bent alternately in opposite directions, substantially as and for the purpose speciiied.

SETI-I ROGERS.

Witnesses:

JEROME SWAET, GEO. A. SWART. 

